Improvement in machines for raking and cocking hay



3. ZA'IVIEE CUSHING STEE'LEOF PANA, ILLINOIS.

y Leners Patent No. 103,099, met May 17,1870.

f IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR RAKING- AND COOKING HAY.

'lhe Schedule referred to 'nthese Letters Patent and making part of the same.

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.To llvufhom it may concern..-`

Be itkno'wn that 1, ZATfrnn GUsutNG STEELE, of

jlana, in the county of Christian and State of'lllinois,

"making a -partof this specitication, and tothe letters :indiigur'es oti reference marked thereon.

`elfig re ],of`the drawings, is a plan view of my in ventiop. j l.

Figure fis a longitudinal secntion of the same.. Figure 3 is adetail. a My invf'entionrelates to means for gathering and `securing hay, and consists in the constructionand arrangement of a novel apparatus` intended to give efficient aid inthe branch of agriculture mentioned, and by the` use of which teddered hay may beeasil y raked and formedinto cocks, l

A', of the drawings," represent the wheels and l5 the axleof my-caif'riage. 'Iotlic above-'described carriage Iattach the horserzikevO, by means of the rods c, as shown on figure 1.

Upon the rear endgv tjtlle teeth of my rakeI atv tach, respectively, the springsnlarked d.

'Ihese springs ser-ve as rests for the platformD, next mentioned, and also "as guides for the hay onto said platform.

D is a platform, attackedtosthe rear cross-bar or head of the rake, in the' manner shown on fig. 2, hy `means of the connecting-rods n.

Upon this platform I arrangethe springs andthe guards y, for t-he purposes' hereinafter mentioned..

' I-I represents a jointed delivering-platfoI-m, con

ends sli'all lz'ip each other, as therein represented, and

pass 'a rod, W, through the whole, thereby forming a complete joint near the middle of the platform.

'A small 'iron plate., z, serves to .keep the fingers of the rear section in place, and a similar strip, under the heads of the ngers of the other section, perthrms a similar duty for that section also.

K is'an elbowlever, the main shaft of which passes under all ,the fingers of the upper or front section ot' the platform, the bent upright Mpart ofV which serving as a hand-lever for operating the device.

The springs@ serve as stops for the movements of the front section of the jointed platform, and also as guides for the hay approaching thereto. The oilce .0f the guards y is to preventthe hay from falling from the ends ot' the platform D.

My apparatus is operated as follows, namely:

Ihe rake is drawn forward into the hay, which receives it upon its teeth, from whence it is conducted, by the pressure it receives, npthe springs d and onto the platform D.. A man stands upon each end of this platform with a hay-fork, and, as soon as they deem platform I) sufficiently loaded, they pnt their forks intothe load, at each end, and top it rearward upon the jointed platform H. This process is repeated until the operators find there is hay enough on platform H to form a cock, when the man next the upright end of lever K takes hold thereof and raises the rear end of the platform, hay is deposited in a pile, and the work is completed The combined' hay-rake and cocker, herein describe-d, having rake (l and platforms 'D and H, when constructed substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim theabove, I have here unto subscribed, my name in the presence ot' two witnesses.

Witnesses: ZATTEE CUSHING STEELE.

W. H. ToPPrsG, 0. R. OOWGILL,

By lifting said lever, the. 

